Counting
I'm slightly addicted to counting the letters on posters and adverts.

I like to do three counts. The first one is just the letters, the second the letters and I count the dots on the i as a separate chatachter lastly, I count the letters, the dots on the i and I count the underline as a letter.

I get a bit frustrated if I am on a bus and it pulls away before I am finished, or is someone stands in the way while I am counting even if I already know what is there and I can work out the total.
(lympicita_ie, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 20:16, 4 replies)

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I try to find the middle letter. Dont know why.
(kitescreech still here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 20:17, closed)

yay
im not alone. i try to find out in the whole sentance is a prime number or what it can be divided into
(pancakes_n_ham, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 21:11, closed)

Me too !
I do stuff like that all the time. It annoys me, but I can't stop. Like counting the number of letters in a word and arranging them symmetrically to see if the syllables match, very simple eg: Kevin- Ke v in 2,1,2 so symmetrical letters and also 1,0,1 syllables.
Or: mechanical mec hani cal (3,4,3 letters and 1,2,1 syllables). And if a word won't work, that's when I start using the dots and underlines as extra characters to MAKE it work.
I could go on for pages trying to explain all the others, but I just read the above and it makes me sound a bit wrong already.
Just glad I'm not alone in this.
(Tony Macaroni hello, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 22:53, closed)

sorry...
but doesn't mechanical have 4 syllables?

mech an i cal...

this will obviously show my complete retardation at English, or spin your OCD into new levels.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 1:23, closed)